Use InventoryPath 3PL Audit

The app is submitted for Shopify review; approval is pending. This guide describes the supported structured-file audit workflow. See the product page for current limits and Standard pricing.

Open the app and confirm the plan

After installing from Shopify’s actual listing when available, open the app from Shopify Admin and select the supported Standard plan. There is no separate app account or manual shop-domain login. Open Usage & plan to verify eligibility before new work.

Set up the provider and rate rules

Create the provider account with its invoice currency and timezone. Enter the actual contract rules in the JSON editor, review the rendered confirmation table and confirm the immutable rate card. Verify effective dates, rate basis, tier semantics, floors, period minimums, rounding and tolerances against the contract.

Rules support flat rates, graduated tiers, whole-volume tiers, per-line floors and period minimums. There can be up to 100 rate rules. Do not treat a fictional demonstration or an inferred rate as the provider’s actual contract.

Upload the invoice and activity evidence

Start an audit with explicit dates, period and tolerance. Audit periods can be up to 120 days. Upload an invoice and optional warehouse activity as CSV or XLSX.

Only the first worksheet is parsed, and formulas are not evaluated. CSV values and identifiers are preserved; ambiguous data is not guessed. Files can be up to 20 MiB each, with up to ten files per audit, 100 columns and 16 KiB per cell. Combined audit limits are 20,000 invoice rows and 100,000 activity rows across all retained files.

PDF, OCR, AI extraction and inbound email are outside this release. Include only information needed for the audit; retained original workbooks can contain additional worksheets and personal or confidential information.

Confirm every column mapping

Confirm each source’s column mapping. Every retained source must be mapped or explicitly removed. Pending or rejected sources are not silently omitted. Check invoice currency and contract meanings before running the audit; the app does not convert currencies.

Run and inspect coverage

Review coverage, the exact rule basis, matched references and potential differences. Keep warehouse-activity evidence separate from Shopify corroboration. Missing evidence produces not-assessed results.

The bounded Shopify search uses a 59-day recent-order horizon and can match tracking, fulfillment identifiers or an explicit order and package sequence. It does not request all historical orders. Older invoice periods can still be checked against supplied files and rates, with missing Shopify coverage shown honestly.

Shopify order and fulfillment counts do not prove physical billable pick events, storage quantities, weight or carrier costs. Review ambiguous or duplicate shipment references with the provider rather than assuming an error.

Accept documented explanations with notes. The potential-difference total updates immediately when a difference is accepted.

Finalize and download a version

Finalize only after review. Final versions are immutable; changes require an amendment that supersedes the earlier version. A finalized clean audit counts toward the allowance, and a finalized amendment counts as a new version.

Findings display 200 per page. The findings CSV contains the complete version. Private downloads may offer Save prepared file if needed.

Record actual provider credits

Record only credits actually received or accepted according to merchant records. Allocate each credit once, within its amount and currency. Keep candidate, explained, credited and reconciled amounts distinct. The app does not contact the warehouse, collect debts, pay invoices or withhold payment.

Potential differences are not recovered funds or proof of wrongdoing. You remain responsible for provider follow-up and invoice or payment decisions.

Retain records and handle privacy requests

Export needed records before expiry. Original files expire thirty days after upload, parsed tables ninety days after upload, audits and associated findings or versions ninety days after creation, and download artifacts seven days after generation. Credits expire after ninety days; older rate cards expire when no retained audit uses them. Keep your own required financial records.

Owners review Privacy requests, all retained-source response pages and findings before recording a completed customer response. Parsed CSV copies support review. Unmodified originals, including rejected uploads and additional workbook sheets, are private binary attachments available during the thirty-day original-file window; handle them through the merchant’s approved process.

The app does not automatically email the customer or declare that no data is held. Customer erasure can purge the store’s mixed audit data, provider setup, reports and credits. The privacy notice describes access, processors and deletion.

InventoryPath 3PL Audit is operated by AvanSaber Inc. Contact [email protected] without sending raw customer documents or credentials in an initial email.

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Optional merchant setup tips

Optional setup tips are available. The full guide and core app work without email enrollment. Only the authenticated store owner can separately opt in and verify an eligible individual inbox.

Open Setup and optional tips inside the Shopify app for a guide based on your store’s recorded progress. Staff can use the guide without subscribing. The owner separately chooses an inbox, approves the displayed purpose and verifies a short-lived code. Inbox verification does not complete an app task or enroll a buyer, supplier, customer or rep in marketing.

The owner may request up to four educational tips over the original fourteen-day help window. Across InventoryPath app setup tips, the same verified inbox receives at most one help email per rolling twenty-four hours and three per rolling seven days. Production sending uses 09:00 to 17:00 in the confirmed store time zone. Messages may be skipped as app progress changes or their useful window passes.

Use an individual inbox without a + tag for optional tips. Zoho Campaigns rejects tagged addresses and some role addresses such as support@, info@ and admin@. The app explains this before requesting a verification code. Enter an eligible individual inbox yourself; operational email can still use supported role addresses.

Sender and Reply-To are Inventory App at [email protected]. Zoho Campaigns delivers optional setup tips. Zoho CPaaS/ZeptoMail delivers requested setup-tip verification codes under a separate transactional purpose. Brevo is retained only where needed for previous withdrawals, late-event handling and historical message/resource cleanup; it is not selected to send new tips for this app. Migration does not reenroll withdrawn or completed sequences.

Tips are separate from operational email, supplier/customer/rep verification, website newsletters and other marketing. Contacts are not imported automatically. The full guide, core functionality and direct support remain available without marketing consent.

Stop this app’s tips or all InventoryPath app setup tips for the inbox from the app or an email preferences link. Opening a preferences link displays confirmation; use the displayed withdrawal control. Provider unsubscribe and account-wide suppression also apply. A message already being sent may still arrive after withdrawal.

Uninstalling or erasing app data revokes current enrollment once detected. Reinstall does not automatically subscribe you, reset the original help window or restart a withdrawn or completed sequence. The privacy notice explains optional inbox, delivery/open/click processing and cleanup boundaries. Product support remains [email protected].

The postal footer for optional tips is AvanSaber Inc., 1050 Lakes Drive, Suite #225, West Covina, CA 91790, United States.

What counts as progress

Confirm the actual contract rules, parse and map supported CSV or Excel files using the first worksheet only, inspect findings and not-assessed coverage, and finalize deliberately. Waiting for the monthly invoice is expected. Zero discrepancies can be useful. A finding, report or export is not recovered money; amendments and actual provider credits remain explicit.